Cosmos Explained

Charles Liu is a Professor of Astrophysics at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island, an Associate with the Hayden Planetarium, and of the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He is a regular co-host on the famous StarTalk show, and received the 2001 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award for his book One Universe: At Home in the Cosmos. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

Who would have thought learning about the evolution of the Universe could be so fun and easy to follow? It doesn’t sound possible when you’re tackling a subject as overarching as this, but Charles Liu has managed to turn complex scientific prose and mathematics into an accessible and beautifully presented retelling of its origins...Whether you’re a budding cosmologist or simply someone with a deep fascination for the Universe and how it came to be, this book is a great introduction to the subject. ★★★★★

• Introduction1: The First Quadrillionth of a Quadrillionth of a Second2: Five Minutes After the Big Bang3: 400,000 Years After the Big Bang4: 400 Million Years After the Big Bang5: 4 Billion Years After the Big Bang6: 4.6 Billion Years Ago7: 4.56 Billion Years Ago8: 3.8 Billion Years Ago9: 1.3 Billion Years Ago10: 170,000 Years Ago11: 20 July 196912: The Future of the UniverseGlossaryResourcesIndexAbout the AuthorAcknowledgements